Light is but the shadow of God.

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors.

The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.